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By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 17, 2026 A man accused of hunting for NBC personalities inside Rockefeller Center allegedly reached the backstage area of the “Today” show, hurled a racial slur at anchor Craig Melvin and lunged toward him before police intervened. Now, a security guard has reportedly been fired as serious questions mount over how an unauthorized intruder managed to…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/17/2026 Category: Government Accountability / Public Corruption / Investigations NEW YORK CITY, NY – Federal agents executed a search warrant at former New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda’s Queens home on July 16 and seized a personal electronic device in Puerto Rico, escalating scrutiny that has followed questions about cash taken during…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/17/2026 Category: Courts / Court Administration / Judicial Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Forty-nine New York Supreme Court justices are asking to remain on the bench beyond the state’s mandatory retirement age of 70, placing a powerful and largely private court-review process under fresh public scrutiny. Certification can extend a Supreme Court…

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 16, 2026 Thousands of New Yorkers who rely on public defenders in Brooklyn and Queens may notice changes at the courthouse today after unionized employees at Brooklyn Defender Services officially walked off the job. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, members of the ALAA-UAW Local 2325 Brooklyn Defender Services Union Chapter began a strike after contract…

By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 16, 2026 Sometimes, one conversation can change a life. That was the goal when rapper and radio personality Maino visited the George R. Vierno Center (GRVC) on Rikers Island, where he met with incarcerated individuals to talk about second chances, careers, and building a better future. During the July 10 visit, Maino and his team stopped by GRVC’s new…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/16/2026 Category: Corrections / Civil Rights / Prison Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal correctional officer has been charged with sexually abusing a woman in his custody at FCI Otisville, raising new questions about whether the prison’s safeguards could detect misconduct by the very employees entrusted with enforcing them. Federal…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/16/2026 Category: Rikers Island / Corrections / Court Oversight NEW YORK CITY, NY – A court-appointed manager has put dates on New York City’s promises to fix Rikers Island, turning years of warnings about violence, broken security and failed accountability into a one-year action plan that can be measured in deadlines, not speeches. Nicholas Deml,…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/15/2026 Category: Criminal Justice / Courts / Public Defense NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s court system is hours away from a labor deadline that could disrupt legal representation for thousands of low-income New Yorkers. About 500 unionized Brooklyn Defender Services workers, including roughly 280 attorneys, may strike at 8 a.m. on July 16 if…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/15/2026 Category: Public Safety / NYPD Accountability / Courts NEW YORK CITY, NY – A survivor of the deadly Midtown office-tower shooting is asking a court to decide whether New York City and the NYPD failed him before the first bullets reached the building. Craig Clementi, an NFL employee wounded during the July 28, 2025 attack at 345 Park Avenue,…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Education / Government Accountability / Public Spending NEW YORK CITY, NY – A showdown over public records at the nation’s largest school system is moving toward a subpoena deadline. New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin has accused the Department of Education of months of “opacity, slow-walking, and delay” after the agency…

By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / NYPD Accountability / Civil Rights / Government Transparency NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s highest court has drawn a hard line around a place where police power is often at its most concentrated: the stationhouse lobby. In a unanimous ruling in Reyes v. City of New York, the New York Court of Appeals held that…

Trump Pays $5.6 Million to E. Jean Carroll After Supreme Court Lets Verdict Stand By Michele Evans | NYWeeklyRecord.com | July 14, 2026 Years of legal fighting have finally turned into a check worth more than $5.6 million—and the impact could reach far beyond one case. President Donald Trump has officially paid writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5.6 million, satisfying the federal judgment…

By Michele Evans New York City, New York Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Public Health / Food Safety / Consumer Protection / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Nearly 400 New Yorkers have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis since May, yet health investigators still have not identified the food or supplier responsible for the growing outbreak. New York City reported 273 confirmed cases from May 1 through…

By Michele Evans New York City, New York Date: 7/14/2026 Category: Technology / Environment / Consumer Costs / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York has become the first state in the nation to stop new large-scale data center projects while regulators examine what the artificial intelligence boom could cost residents, the power grid, and the environment. Governor Kathy Hochul announced…

STATEN ISLAND, NY – A stolen vehicle slammed into a Staten Island home Monday, turning an alleged car theft into a neighborhood emergency and leaving two people in custody, according to local reporting. FOX 5 New York reported that authorities were investigating after the vehicle crashed into the residence. The publicly available report identified the vehicle as stolen and said two people had…

NEW YORK CITY, NY – Nearly $1 million meant to support New York students was allegedly diverted through two separate fraud schemes, according to indictments announced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The cases are allegations, not convictions. All three defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. But the public-interest stakes…